Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
True eloquence scorns eloquence.
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.